If you have bought the first edition, the example graphics and other files used in the book are still available for download from this page. You should also rest assured that just because a newer edition has been released that doesn't mean that the original edition is now out of date (please see further comment below).

The original edition of Create Your First Web Page in a Weekend, released in November 1996, is still perfectly current. As far as HTML is concerned, the only features covered in the later editions that are not in the original edition are a few HTML 4.0 tags of relatively minor import (the SPAN, THEAD, TBODY, and TFOOT tags). Most of the other new HTML 4.0 tags and attributes fall into the "advanced" HTML category, which is not covered in either edition. The only other really major addition to the later editions is a graphics tutorial for creating Web art special effects. So, if you have bought the original edition, you should rest assured that the HTML that it covers (HTML 2.0 and 3.2) is still perfectly up to date (good HTML should never go out of date!). You needn't worry that you'll be learning "old stuff."

Buy Your Copy Here!

Because this web site is an associate partner of Amazon.com, you can order a copy of the Revised Edition of Create Your First Web Page in a Weekend right here, directly from Amazon.com, the biggest cyber-bookstore of them all. And, hey, I get a royalty for each sale, which means I'll get a double royalty for each book ordered here, one from my publisher and the other from Amazon.com. Just click the following link to place your order:

Promote Your Web Site!

With the Internet and the Web growing by leaps and bounds, it is easy for your page or site to get lost in the shuffle. Learning how to promote your site and make others aware of your efforts is increasingly key to success on the Web. I've assembled some useful web site promotion methods, information, and resources -- just click the link to find out more:

Downloads

Included on the CD-ROM are graphics that are used in the tutorials, examples and templates used in planning and creating a web page, and a sampler of additional icons, graphic rules, and background images. If you don't have a CD-ROM drive, you can download these files here:

Tutorial example graphics used in Chapter 2, the Basic HTML Tutorial, and in Chapter 3, the Intermediate HTML Tutorial. NOTE: You can find these graphics in the \BOOK\TUTORIAL directory on the CD-ROM.

Basic web page examples used in Chapter 5, Creating Your First Web Page. A number of additional web page templates are also included. NOTE: You can find these graphics in the \BOOK\TMPLATES directory on the CD-ROM.

A web art sampler, including bullets, lines, background images, and more that you can use in creating your web pages. NOTE: You can find these graphics in the \BOOK\SAMPLES directory on the CD-ROM.

The instructions in the book for running Netscape Navigator off-line in Windows 3.1 call for using MOZOCK.DLL. Since this seems to no longer be available from Netscape's web site, you can download it here:

Templates

I'll be listing here web page templates I've put together that you can download. Right now, you can download a frames, newsletter, genealogy, calendar, and navigation bar templates, plus a collection of generic templates. Keep checking back for even more web page templates in the future! Click the following links to download the templates:

Frames Templates. Includes two templates, one for creating a two-frame web site, the other for creating a more sophisticated nested three-frame web site.

CD-ROM Pointers

Errata and Other Info

Promote Your Web Site!

With the Internet and the Web growing by leaps and bounds, it is easy for your page or site to get lost in the shuffle. Learning how to promote your site and make others aware of your efforts is increasingly key to success on the Web. I've assembled some useful web site promotion methods, information, and resources -- just click the link to find out more:

Readers' Pages

This part of my site is dedicated to helping readers of my web publishing books get some notice for their web pages. If you have read my book and created a web page that you would like to have listed here, just e-mail me at callihan@callihan.com. To check out my readers' pages, go to:

AOL Readers

A fairly frequent question I've gotten from AOL readers is about how to run AOL's default web browser offline. As far as I know, you have to be connected to AOL to run its default browser. To do the tutorials, you should just connect to AOL and then run your browser as you normally would. To open a local HTML file, in AOL's Internet Explorer, click File, Open, and Browse, then go to C:\HTML and double-click on your HTML file (scratch.htm, etc.).

If you want to be able to browse offline, nothing says you can't download and install either Netscape Navigator 4.5 or Internet Explorer 5.0 so you can browse local HTML files offline.

Another fairly frequent question I've gotten from AOL readers is about how to publish web pages to a user's web folders on AOL's server. You can go to the keyword "My Place" in AOL and then select "Frequently Asked Questions" to get information on how to use My Place. I've also found a couple of links that describe the process of using My Place to publish your web pages to your folder on AOL's server: